Insulation cost in Houston: 2023 spending
Houston owners paid a median $2,000 for insulation work: $500 above the U.S. median, third-highest of 6 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Houston owners paid
$2,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$778: at 90% confidence the Houston median lies between $1,222 and $2,778.
How Houston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $1,500
- Rank, highest first
- 3 of 6
Houston: $2,000. Between the lowest and highest big-metro medians.
9 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 6.
No published figure: Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle.
What it covers
Adding or replacing insulation anywhere in the house: attic, walls or floors.
The Census category is “Insulation” within “Interior Additions and Replacements”: what Houston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
If your quote is well above $2,000, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. Which surfaces, removal, access and air-sealing tasks are included?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.